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The women's movements in the MENA and the Islamic world are increasingly demanding equality. Despite the theoretical and spiritual quality of ...

The political economy of conflict is central to understanding the prospects of peace-building. The situations where conflicts are based more on indivisible ...

This article quotes a section from Ethan Zuckerman's blog 'My Heart's in Accra', highlighting the significance of the mobile phone ...

This report seeks to influence the process of democratic transition by providing an index that allows advocates of democracy in the Arab world to monitor ...

Women's political participation is regarded as not only desirable but vital to the advancement of gender equality. In light of this, this report ...

These reports explores provide a detailed picture of human rights conditions in 194 countries around the world. The U.S. Government ...

Constitutional reform in the Arab world derives legitimacy from its importance in the process of modernization, reformulating the relationship between ...

As the financial crisis winds down, policymakers need to formulate and begin to implement strategies for exiting from crisis related intervention policies. ...

Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors ...

This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting ...

The focus of this paper is on the top-down introduction of advocacy in the Egyptian context in the 1990s as part of the bid to promote democratisation ...

With increased levels of security in Iraq in 2008-9, displaced persons have begun to make decisions about their future, and the number of displaced Iraqis ...

This paper reports on a research exercise involving monitoring the Yemeni media over a six-week period. It emphasises that the promotion of gender-balanced ...

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Algeria was one of the initiators of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). This ...

Recent critics of aid programmes have argued that aid is in fact the key cause of economic dependency, lack of growth, corruption, and even laziness amongst ...

There is a growing body of evidence from a range of developing countries that social protection programmes can effectively increase the nutritional, health ...

The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal (based at the Danish Institute for Human Rights) will create the first freely available website where ...

وزير الخزانة البريطاني، جورج أوزبورن، يعلن عن خطط لتخفيض الإنفاق في مجال الرعاية الاجتماعية بأربعة مليارات جنيه إسترليني (6 مليار دولار أمريكي) سنويا.